Where does “kolmiloikka” come from?

kolmiloikka (Finnish) comes from Finnish loikka, from Finnish loikata, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

kolmiloikka (Finnish): triple jump

Definitions

  1. triple jump

Ancestry of “kolmiloikka”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishloikkaA leap
2FinnishloikataTo leap; To defect
3Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ta →Every word from Finnish loikka →
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